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Modern AI is simply no match for the complexity likely required for harboring consciousness, says Jaan Aru He argues that our brain’s computations are of a completely different nature than any artificial intelligence because they take place across many spatial and temporal scales and are inextricably…

In the latest @braininspired.bsky.social, @jaanaru.bsky.social argues that our brain’s computations are of a different nature than any AI; brains compute across spatial and temporal scales, and the computations are entwined with the biological materials.

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Trump’s entire justification for his ability to tariff is based on the Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. Can someone tell me how this “nasty woman” is somehow a threat to the USA? SCOTUS needs to shut him down immediately, and Congress needs to reclaim the power of the purse.

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning

Well TPUSA is calling their halftime show a success with 5M viewers but an interesting fact is that it's estimated 128M people watched Bad Bunny and more than 12M watch the Puppy Bowl

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

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there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis.

I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

Just a reminder that both Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost have been attacked this week.

No outrage by right-wing media or even corporate media.

Now imagine if this were done to Republicans.

The entire system is rigged in favor of conservatives, folks. The double standards are just wild.

Tell Congress: Freeze Funding for ICE! Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good—by opposing additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in violent and lawless agent...

Congress has a critical government funding deadline on January 30th. It’s up to them to use it for good. Send an email to demand accountability and oppose additional funding for DHS without safeguards that rein in ICE’s violence and lawlessness:

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The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

Mark my words, there will be so much civil unrest that he’ll try cancel the midterm elections. (2/2)

After seeing Zelensky cancel elections due to war, I knew Trump would attempt the same to avoid midterms. I thought he’d use a war with Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, or Cuba as justification. I didn’t anticipate he’d engineer a civil war. (1/2)

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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His name was Alex. He was a nurse at the VA. He was beaten and murdered by Trump's violent criminal paramilitary known as ICE.

The video is horrendous. ICE is flat-out murdering people. There is no excuse, but let the Republican gaslighting begin.

It isn’t that the DEM policies are bad, but the Democrats need a Frank Luntz to ensure we don’t marginalize potential voters and don’t need to be defensive about the word choice. “Rebuild immigration enforcement” signals DEMs aren’t a party of lawlessness and is one of many better options.

That dynamic serves those at the top far more than it serves working Americans of any race.

Not that it's a new tactic. It's American as Apple Pie (3/3)

When those in power channel economic anxiety toward DEI or immigration rather than toward wealth concentration and policy choices that favor capital over labor, attention shifts away from the small economic class accumulating disproportionate power. (2/3)

BlackCheck: Trump Says Civil Rights Act Led to Whites Being 'Very Badly Treated.' Here's What the Data Says. Spoiler alert: He's wrong.

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The data are precise: civil rights protections did not harm white Americans. The wealth gap between asset owners and everyone else has widened. (1/3)

This is the big reason we have a Second Amendment

I'm sure the @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social will give him the warmest of welcomes!

The exact quote. bsky.app/profile/klas...

LISTEN LIVE: Supreme Court case on Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

Thank Goodness Kavanaugh seems to be aligned with the necessary independence of the Federal Reserve. #scotus

www.youtube.com/live/xpx6-uT...

Carney at Davos: "And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself."

Trump at Davos:

Ooh, very cool. I'll need to stop off and pick this up!

Wanted to reply in a similar vein. Putin may very well have kompromat on Trump that, combined with what we already know is in the Epstein files, would end him. He's just doing his bidding now. HeI clearly compromised to even suggest dissolving NATO.

Data showing spending and deficit increases under each president since Reagan

While tangential to the argument for creating a larger government, it is clear that the GOP lacks fiscal responsibility and consistently spends irresponsibly, rarely to improve citizens' outcomes.

Just as everyone predicted with the exception of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, Howard Lutnick, and Kevin Hassett. The last 3 knew they’ve been lying, not sure with Orange Caligula because he’s a moron and a liar so in his case it could be either one or both.